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Pub Science Experiment #1 Pub 3: The Railway Tavern, Commercial Road E14
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Pub Science Experiment #1
Pub 3: The Railway Tavern, Commercial Road E14
Category: Railway
Ten or fifteen minutes’ walk from Globe Road is another Railway Tavern. The railway this one’s next to is of the Docklands Light variety (Limehouse[…]

Oh Crikey
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Oh Crikey: The Ayingerbrau Challenge – worthy cultural event AND they’ve got behind the save the Fat Man petition, which is steaming ahead with 136 signatures to date. We are still waiting for a reply from Herr Mayor of Aying, largely bec[…]

Hurrah for more pub quiz victory! (Glasgow edition)
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Hurrah for more pub quiz victory! (Glasgow edition) I rather like my handwriting. It’s all swirls and flourishes, and it has quiz benefits if, hem hem, your quizmaster can’t decipher what you’ve put. Q: What was the name of the Fren[…]

Food Vs Fun
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Food Vs Fun
This is what I went to for our work Christmas do. It reinforced my suspicions that food and fun do not mix. This is the first time I’ve been to one of these ‘dinner plus entertainment’ things, you see them advertised on […]

Pub Science Experiment #1 Pub 2: The Railway Tavern, Globe Road E2
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Pub 2: The Railway Tavern, Globe Road E2
Category: Railway
Bang goes one side-theory: that these places would all be super-quick to get to because they’re all near stations. The Railway is only a five minute walk from […]

I’LL HAVE A PEE PLEASE BOB
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I’LL HAVE A PEE PLEASE BOB
Possibly the oldest quiz machine still in existence found in the Grafton Arms on Grafton Way on Friday night. Instead of the gurning faces of Messers Tarrant (Millionaire) and Foxy (Pepsi Chart), we instead had the be[…]

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Publog Picture Quiz
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Publog Picture Quiz
What is this?

a) A prawn?
b) A Locust?
c) The hairest pork scratching in the world ever, as discovered in a packet of these bought from The Sekforde Arms on Friday night.
Apologies for the poor focus; the light was very poor inde[…]

THE PAST IS A V.FOREIGN COUNTRY pt whatever
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THE PAST IS A V.FOREIGN COUNTRY pt whatever
“apple: generic term for all fruit other than berries but including nuts““botulism: derived via german from Latin botulus, sausage” “cake: a flat round loaf of bread” &#[…]

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Which of the following is not a pie?
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i. shepherd’s/cottage pieii. cheese flan/pizzaiii. scotch eggiv. boiled egg

actually i am not going to bother you w.all the ins and outs of the GREBT PIE DEBATE, as i wz not in on its inception, and besides the militia are now formed and a s[…]

It’s that time of year
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It’s that time of year when ‘pub awards’ start to be handed out. Will the Freaky Trigger collective be giving a pub award? Yes they will, just as soon as we think of a sufficiently preposterous scientific way of judging it. However,[…]

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